Romans 7:15-25
15 For I do not understand my own actions. For aI do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate. 16 Now if I do what I do not want, I agree with athe law, that it is good. 17 So now ait is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me. 18 For I know that nothing good dwells ain me, that is, in my flesh. For I have the desire to do what is right, but not the ability to carry it out. 19 aFor I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I keep on doing. 20 Now if I do what I do not want, ait is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me.
21 So I find it to be a law that when I want to do right, evil lies close at hand. 22 For aI delight in the law of God, bin my inner being, 23 but I see in my members aanother law waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that dwells in my members. 24 Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from athis body of death? 25 Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself serve the law of God with my mind, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin.
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